THE RELIGIOUS FRENZY IN ALBERTLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4528, 3 December 1884, Page 2

THE RELIGIOUS FRENZY IN ALBERTLAND.

Moro Extraordinary Scene).

(BY TELKGRAPJI—OWN CORItESI'ONDENT,

Port Albert, this day. The exciting and extraordinary Bcenes enacted at the " holiness meeting" on Saturday and Sunday were continued, but in such an outrageous form yesterday that the police have taken up the matter. I have just helped te carry the wife of a lespectable Auckland citizen into a settler's house, where Miss Becroft and Mrs Hunt acted the Good Samaritan. The woman was standing a few yards from the public road with uplifted arm, and, clad about as sparsely as Mother Eve, was praying excitedly. The schoolmaster was unable to conduct school, owing to the frightful yells for three nights disturbing him, his house being near the camp. There are six mad people. I saw a man with only his trouee'rs on (a highly moral and religious Auckland citizen) rolling and strugglingand screamingon the ground, all the while tightly embracing another man's wife. Both are mad, and while they, were thus performing, an evangelist roared " Glorj ! Glory !" The owner of the camping ground, very properly, is ordering them